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Show VOLUME 101 NUMBER 13 "Annie Get Your Gun" 1 page 6 Mayor Corroon and Council Member Jensen. Members of the Magna Town Council (the official voice of Magna to county government) and the Magna Community Council (a private service organization) were also in attendance, in the audience. Staeee Adams, of the County Mayor's Office, and Magna Town Council Member I aDcll Bishop shared conducting duties In answer to questions from the audience, Mavor Corroon said, The real question for Magna residents at this point is, Are you happy with the Council Member Jensen advises Magna to stay with township for awhile West Valley City has no cur- rent plans to annex Magna, and City Manager Wayne Pv le does not consider annexation to be financially or politically feasible at this time. Also, Salt I ake County Council Membets Jim Bradley and Michael Jensen (a Magna resident) adise Magna to choose continuation of her township status in the upcoming I1B40 survey. Those two major points came out of a town hall meeting at Fitness and the Magna Recreation Center Monday evening. The meeting, attended by about a 140 people, was held for county and city officials and representatives from the Center for Publie Policy and Administration (CPPA) at the University of Utah to present information and answer questions regarding the survey that is about to be conducted to ascertain the preferences of residents of the unincorporated council for the governance of their loeal communities. An act of the state legislature 111340, in 2005 known as which extended the township What happened... 35 years ago March 29, 1973 Funds raised for UofU eye bank Hunter members - Lions Club from Hunter, Utah, launched a telephone campaign to raise $5,000 for an eye bank at the University of Utah Medical Center. The fund raising event began March 23, as the 25 members of the Hunter started Lions calling throughout the Salt Lake Valley for pledges. The new eye bank will provide a storage facility for corneas which will be available to persons as needed, according to Dr. Henry J. L. Van Dyk, chairman of the Division of Ophthalmology at the medical center. The money will go toward a $1,500 cooling unit to house the comes, for supporting $1,000 equipment and training, and $2,500 for a hydraulic reclining chair. The Hunter Lions have taken on the project as its part in the annual Lions White Cane Drive which annually raises money to help vision programs in Utah. Last year. Lions cluhs raised and contributed $7,300 to the Library of the Blind for the purchase of Braille typewriters, other hospitals and blind centers received thousands more in additional funds. Hunter Lions officials said persons wishing to donate to the establishment of the Medical Center Eye Bank could mail their pledges to Lion Hank, Department of , Medica' Ophthamol-ogy- University Center, 50 North Medica Drive, Salt Lake City, 84112. ooboi 2-- ; no designs on Magma (for now) WVC Dias By Colin B. Douglas .Yen's Editor 13722 status of unincorporated county areas, protecting them from annexation and granting them some measure of control over their own destinies, will expire in 2009. HB40 requires the state to survey the preferences of local residents before that time, to guide the legislature in its decisions as to what comes next. The survey, to be conducted during March and April under contract by the CPPA, will allow residents to express their preferences among continuing to be governed by the county with township protection, being governed by the county without township protection, incorporation, or annexation to a neighboring city. The meeting was attended by County Council Member Jim Bradley, West Valley City Manager Wayne P le and Assistant City Manager Paul Isaac, and Benjamin McAdam, representing the Salt Lake City Mayor's Office, as well as government grow in the community. Council Member Jensen said, I'd love to see us Long-terFor now, I think we incorporate. services you are getting from the county? Studies show that costs for those services would be higher if you incorporate. Mayor Corroon also said that his preference would be to keep Magna in the county for now, and, I would be happy to give the townships more authority over their affairs. Council Member Bradley said, Tve been extremely proud of what weve been ab le to do for the communities in the unincorporated county. If I lived in Magna, I'll tell you this: I'd stay in the unincorporated county and help good should protect our borders, which is what the township does. I also think we should go to the legislature next year and ask them to give more autonomy to the townships. It would give us time to ev olv e and build our tax base. My choice would be to stay w ith the township and move forward collectively toward incorporation. See HB40" on page 3 Youth group of envisions future IVlagna historical hiking trail By Robert Goble Staff Writer The Friday morning before Easter is cool and bright. Its a morning when you stand in the sunlight, turn the collar up, and take a deep breath of fresh air. Under your feet the grass is young and thin, but green; its a color youve been awaiting for months. Above you, the Oquirrhs (named by the Goshute people who once took in a similar vista), still covered in snow, make you want to drink their cloud shrouded whiteness. Its a morning for a good, long walk. A group of youth and adult leaders gather at the LDS stake center at 3100 South and 8400 West, a red brick building that has stood since it was completed (on what were then the outskirts of town) back in 1961. There was just a large field there once upon a time, but to some of the youth and adults alike, the building had always been there. Like the rest of Magna, there was once a different view here that was just as real and... mundane. But there is nothing mundane about today. Folks here are looking back. Theyre embarking on a small trek that they hope will catch on for old timers and newcomers alike. Perhaps in taking for granted our history, we'll lose it in future development. This is an historical hike through Magna to appreciate the deep roots and stories that make us who Jackie Sudbury points out Street memories to the West Mountain Ward youth historical trek led by Bishop Jay Kessler Main going to take all of our youth to the intersection of where Snaketown and Ragtown met, and then were going to, walk down historic Main Street. This is cool, an unidentified voice says over the excite we are. Today were going to drive up to the road near w here Dead Man's Cave is and look at that from the highway. says Bishop Jay Kessler of the West Mountain Ward. Then were By I i During the month of April, The Prevention Crime Kearns will Association spearhead its F second annual Operation abatement prograffiti gram. During last years KCPA camF Operation 159 volunteers 65 spent paign, hours on Saturdays and some weekdays painting over and "erasing" graffiti throughout the By Bennion Gardner Staff Writer END - GRAF' l ljn yi-j Cathy Harding Staff Writer i i i - r K st t r js END-GRA- END-GRA- community. Graffiti is a community issue, said Paula Larsen, member of the Kearns Community Council. Graffiti is not only an eyesore, its a kick in the pocket-booAcross the United States, the cost of cleaning up graffiti is estimated at more than $7 billion a year. Richard Condon, who organ- k. Call it vandalism or call it art JL graffiti seems to be an addictive habit. ized a graffiti conference held in Washington D.C., fears that graffiti is threatening the survival of entire communities. "The neighborhood begins to deteriorate, and then that invites first minor crime and then major crime, said Condon. "We can see this in a lot of our cities where graffiti has just taken over." They spray and run. Some ot the graffiti is done by gangs marking territory, but most is just taggers scrawling their names or symbols to gain personal recognition. Getting kids to clean up their graffiti doesn't work. Fxperts say betthey only leant how to do it easas it removed ter so can't be ily next time. Murals help to a point keeping one wall clean, but not those around it. The Kearns Crime Prevention Association agrees with most See EMD-GR- AF is the crumbling cement of the old Lincoln Highway. From the overlook, the morning sun washes the ancient sedimentary stone once submerged under see Trek on page 3 Candidates file to represent West Side April in Kearns means 'Operation ment as they gather at the Dead Mans Cave monument, named for the Native American skeletons once found inside, and the lore that someone had committed suicide there around the turn of the century. Winding by on page 10 The race to represent Magna at the State Legislature took an interesting turn recently when Sue Duckworth, the wife of cur- Carl rent Representative to run filed Duckworth, against her husband. Carl Duckworth is currently battling a rare form of blood cancer. On the Republican side, Deena Ely filed to run for the position after narrowly losing to Duckworth in a recount two years ago. Magna became a battleground for the voucher issue during the last election when voucher opponents and supporters funncled large sums of money into the campaigns of Duckworth and Ely, respectively. Also filing to challenge Duckworth are two labor union leaders, Mike Miller and Brandt Goble, and rounding out the Democratic slate of candidates is Greg Schulz, who works for Salt Lake County as a liaison between the County and Town Councils. Constitution Party member Thomas Mangum has also filed to run in District 22. See Candidates" on page 10 Kcr.r.ccctt to cnsrcr questions - Representatives of Kennecott Copper Utah will be present at the Magna Community Council Meeting on March 27, at 7 p.m. to answer questions about a Salt Lake Tribune report that the dan-gcompany withheld information from the public about the 1980s the its from tailings pond during ofa potential spill and 1990s. The meeting will be held at the Magna Senior Crater.- - ; . Kennecott will also send representatives to the Magna Town Council meeting on April 3, at 7 P.M. That meeting will be held j at the Magna Chamber of Commerce. ar - J |